Mallet.



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dense and State 0f HOI-BROOK, OIE4 PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO HOLBROOK BVAW HIDE COMPANY, A. CORPORATION- 0F RHODE ISLAND.

MALLET.

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Specification MLettef' Patent. Fatnted Anlg. 20, 1918.

pileationled )tay 17, 191B. Serial No. 235,067.

To all whom t 'maV concern Be it known t at I, V@Hannes W. HOL- encon, a citizen of the United States, residing at rovidence, in the county of ProvihodeIsland, have in-y vented certain. new an useful Improvements in Mallets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to loaded rawhide mallets of which my formerV United States 'Patent No. 463,113, issued Nov. 10, 1891, is

- a tiype.

n this type of mallet wherein a 4metal strip was interwound it was necessary that the metal should not extend 'to the working faces of the mallet because it would scratch the work. The resultant spiral openings in the working faces were so broad to re- Aqu'ire a filling which pulverized with use and escaped. When through ui" the working faces were Worn to the metalthe mallet was useless.` In this type of mallet it was necessary that the hide to be rolled be of uniform thckness, both transversely and `in the direction of rolling. This involved the necessity 4of using selected hides as well as of shaving the surface of the same to avuniform thickness. Furthermore it was necessary to make the diameter of the. head excessive in order to secure the necessary Weight.

The essential ob]ects of my inventlon are to overcome the disadvantages herein above.

enumerated; to arrange the Weight or load in the head so that it shall be efecti'vc-.atthe point where the blow occurs; to vary the weight of the head without varying the size, and capable of delivering eithera yielding 'or heavy blow; to improve the balance and feci, and to attain these ends in a structurev requiring a minimum of rawhide, which 1s scarce, in its construction.

To the above ends essentially my invention consists in such ,parts and combinations of parts as fall within the scope of the appended claims.

Ini the accompanying Adrawings which form a. part of this invention,

Figure 1 is .a side elevation ofmy novel mullet,

Fig. 2, an enlarged lon the head With a portion o the handle broken away, and

3 and 4, transverse sections of the itudinal section of same on lines 3-3 and 4-4 respectively of Fig. 2.

Like referenceJ `characters indicate like parts throughout 'the views.

My mallet comprises a cylindrical metallic core 6, preferably of lead, having a trans# verse hole 7 to receivethe handle 9. Around this core is formed a sheath 10 of rawhide formed from a strip which need be of uni.- form thickness transversely of the rolling only, but may be of any thickness in the di-v l,rection of the rolling. This strip is spira-lly rolled or wound around the core in convolutions 11, and is affixed thereto by compression and anadhesive in a manner known in the lart. -The resultant sheath or shell cxtends beyond both ends of the metallic coils forming sockets 12 for rawhide cores new to be described.

Each core 13 consists of a spirally wound strip of rawhide having the contacting faces of the convolutionsll covered with cement. The wound member 13 is suitably come pressed, dried, and .driven into the sockets 12, with their ends flush with the ends of the sheath. In this instance the cores 13 are insured against accidental escape by rivets 16 transversely traversin the sheath and cores through openings 1 and 18 respectively. l

Thefsheath has openings 19 in alinernent withthe holc7 to admit the handle 9.`

1. In a mallet of the ty-pe` set forth, the

combination of afwnetallic core, an rawhide sheath sli'rroundilngfthe core and projecting beyond the ends thereof forming sockets, rawhide corcsseated in thcfsoekets, and a' handle Ifast inthe sheath and` metallic core.`

2. In a mallet-of the type set forth, the combination of a metallic core, a sheath comprising spiral convolutions of rawhide tightly embracing thecore and extending lbeyond the core, cores comprising'spiral con-4 volutions of rawhide` fast in the extended portions of the sheath and -in contact with the metallic core, and a handle in the sheath and metallic core. A

3. In -a mallet of the type; set forth, the combination of a metallic core,- a rawhide sheath embracing the core and projecting beyond the ends thereof, rawhide cores fast in the extended portions of the sheath and flush w'ih (he e'ndS. 0f"l1he ishezith, and a pois-lions of tl sheath, rivets extending handle in the inelnlliu com nml hmlth. transversely of the sheath und the lust inen- 10 4. ln n mullet o'l" l'ln; type set forth, the finned coi-vs, and ny handle in Ilm n'mlnll-ic combination (gli a metallic more, n sheath comuni-(f unl sheath.

pi'ising spiral, ennmlnlinns nl rawhide In estin'iony whereof I have affixed my lightly umlinucing the, com: und extending signature.

beyond the com, cores comin-innig spiral co11 volutions of rawhide fast in the extended t CHARLES W. HOLBROOK. 

